For Every Adult American...

 ... There Are Four Adult Chinese 

Approximately

1.03 Billion Adult Chinese. 

260 million Adult Americans

1,030,000,000     with   8 million Computer Engineers

   260,000,000     with  2 million Computer Engineers

The percentage of computer engineers is remarkably the same in both populations.

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Shenzhen, China's "Silicon Valley"
(Way bigger than ours)

With these numbers it's inevitable that

stuff like this will keep happening.

That impeccable British Journal  nature sez:

China could chip away at GPU dominance

The United States’ competitive advantage in computing hardware, bolstered by export controls, might soon erode. Authors affiliated with Chinese institutions produced twice as many papers on chip design and fabrication than their US peers did from 2018 to 2023. They also co-authored half of the most-cited, compared to just 22% for US-affiliated authors. While China has been boosting its research output in many fields, “I don’t know if we’ve seen a field where there is quite this difference”, says Zachary Arnold, an analyst at the Emerging Technology Observatory.

Nature | 3 min

This week we learn that China is catching up to the United States in computing-hardware research, and the creative ways students are using chatbots and explore  AI.

Cambricon's Cambrian-1 chip uses a computing architecture specially designed for an artificial-intelligence technique known as deep learning. (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Never one to shun redundancy, my fascination with China as a more and more formidable competitor has spurred me to comment on the issue over and over. Only recently our AI Megalith was stunned by DeepSeek. Search "China" on this blog and get bloggered.